Sergei Duvanov (born 1953) is a prominent Kazakhstani journalist who, in 2002, wrote articles that claimed President Nursultan Nazarbayev and several other Kazakh politicians had illicit Swiss bank accounts containing millions of U.S.' dollars.
[1] Duvanov was arrested in October 2002 at his datcha outside Almaty and accused of raping a 14-year-old girl.
The arrest occurred one day before he visited the United States to speak about Kazakhstan's human rights situation.
On the initiative of its Central Asia Project Manager Peter Zalmayev, ILHR awarded Duvanov (in absentia) its annual human rights award at a ceremony held at the United Nations on December 9, 2002.
However, Duvanov is not allowed to go to public places (a notion undetermined by Kazakh law).